Another Monday, another fresh edition of 3D Print Weekly in your inbox to cure your start-of-the-week blues!
The above image is a truly amazing 3D printed piece - a custom designed gun replica from the hugely popular game Portal. This beauty is made by mechanical engineer Melissa. You can read her brief run down and watch the video demo at boingboing.
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Innovation
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"It’s hard to go far in the DIY gadget world without hearing about the exploits of modder extraordinaire, Ben Heck. Famous for squeezing almost every electronic device imaginable into a briefcase, his latest efforts revisit a project to build a fully operational Briefcase 3D printer."
Read more on Ponoko
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"No more need for rough housing or shanty towns. Homes of the future will be designed on computers and then printed."
Read more (with video) on Tomorrow's World
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Popularity
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"2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things -- including intricate objects once impossible to create."
Watch the video on TED.com
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Grants/Funding
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"Do you have a transformational idea that could leverage 3D printing technologies to deliver real social benefits in the developing world? Would you welcome the chance to work with great people to develop your idea further? Better still, could your idea steal the $100,000 prize in our international challenge? You think so? Well, then you have to enter the 3D4D challenge."
Get the details on iMaterialise
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"The TangiBot is a Makerbot Replicator clone. The same performance and features of The Replicator at a roughly 33% discount."
(Particularly interesting is the list of reasons for owning a 3D printer in the description!)
Read more about this project on Kickstarter
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Politics
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"Denise Howell talks to Michael Weinberg about 3D Printing and the potential intellectual property implications of this rapidly spreading, disruptive technology"
Michael Weinberg is an Attorney for Public Knowledge, and works to protect 3D printing to ensure the free use of the manufacturing technique for all.
FInd out more on This Week in Law
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Weird and Wonderful
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"A Japanese engineering company called Fasotec will convert an MRI scan of your unborn child into a 3D-printed replica that you can use to adorn your mantelpiece."
Read more on Wired UK
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